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A prosecutor told jurors today that Andrea Yates killed her five children because she thought she was a bad mother and wanted to be punished

A woman trying to run down another woman ran her car into a crowd of people at a party early this morning, injuring the target and a nearby man

Gov. Rick Perry and officials cut the ribbon today to open a 10-mile section of the reconstructed Katy Freeway between the Fort Bend County line and just west of Highway 6

A teenage girl and her parents are suing the Conroe school district for $2 million, alleging the district failed to protect the girl from sexual abuse by an employee

Lawyers for Angel Maurino Resendiz, the "Railroad Killer," asked the Supreme Court today to delay Resendiz's execution, saying he's mentally incompetent

The city of Galveston is considering changing restrictions on how close houses can be to beaches in the wake of state efforts to remove homes from public beaches

Webster Smith, a Coast Guard cadet accused of raping his sometimes-girlfriend, testified today at his court-martial that the sex was consensual

Thieves stripped copper and other metal from the air conditioning units of a northeast Houston church Saturday night, destroying the units

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